英文 Uber may have pulled its project to work with auto-rickshaws in India, but that isn’t stopping startup Jugnoo from zooming ahead with its plans to turn the iconic and budget transportation service into an on-demand one. New Delhi-based Jugno...
英文 Free Basics, a service by Facebook initiative Internet.org, is having a rough week in India. First, an email campaign by the social media network was criticized for being heavy-handed and misleading. Now the Times of India reports that Relia...
英文 CarTrade, a classified site for car dealers in India, has scored an impressive $145 million in new funding to fuel new acquisitions and expand its products. The round was led by Singapore-based investment firm Temasek and March Capital, with...
英文 Abhijit BoseCrunch Network Contributor Abhijit Bose is the founder and CEO of Ezetap. More posts by this contributor: Why Facebook failed with Free Basics How to join the network While global stock markets reset and U.S. tech unicorns readju...
英文 CREO is a new startup in India with big ambitions. It not only wants to create a new Android-based operating system, but also produce its own smartphones. The Bengaluru-based company announced today that it has raised $3 million from Sequoia...
英文 Earlier this week, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi introduced a set of initiatives, called Startup India, designed to help the country’s fledgling tech companies and their investors. One of the first Silicon Valley venture capital firms ...
英文 Hike, the Indian messaging app competing with global giants like WhatsApp, is adding a quartet of Silicon Valley veterans as investors and advisors. These include Quora co-founder and chief executive officer Adam D’Angelo; Automattic founder...
英文 Solving logistics issues in major cities is an expensive and complicated headache for India’s e-commerce companies. Next month, online shoppers in Delhi might get deliverance in the form of kiosks in major subway stations that will let them ...
英文 Care24 is the latest home healthcare startup to get funding in India. The Mumbai-based company announced today that it has closed a $4 million Series A from SAIF Partners, which it will invest in caretaker training and its technology platfor...
英文 India’s transportation app future isn’t just about Uber and billion-dollar homegrown rival Ola. That’s because Shuttl, an eight-month-old startup that provides air-conditioned minibuses, just raised $20 million from Lightspeed, Sequoia and U...
英文 Hassan BaigCrunch Network Contributor Hassan Baig runs ClubInternet, a technology company focused on 'The Next Billion.' More posts by this contributor: Peering Into The Minds Of The 4.3 Billion Unconnected The Challenge Of Connecting The Un...
英文 Flipkart, one of the biggest players in India’s booming e-commerce market, has conceded that there is one part of online retail it can’t win, and stopped selling e-books. Users who have already made purchases can still access their libraries...
英文 India’s e-commerce market is growing at an incredibly quick pace and expected to be worth $100 billion by 2020. All online sellers, however, face a major hurdle: the country’s underdeveloped logistics infrastructure. A new startup called Qik...
英文 Tracxn, a company that tracks and analyzes data about startups, has added entrepreneur Ratan Tata as an angel investor. Though the amount of new funding was undisclosed, Tata’s contribution is noteworthy because he is one of India’s most ren...
英文 APUS Group, a Beijing-based company that makes utility apps for Android smartphones, has launched a $45 million investment fund to invest in Indian startups. Several of APUS Group’s own investors — Northern Light Venture Capital, Redpoint Ve...
英文 India has a big appetite for on-demand startups at the moment, and today one of the hopefuls in the food category has raised some money to supersize its business. Swiggy, a restaurant delivery startup that claims to be the largest in India a...
英文 Indian e-commerce company Shopclues has raised a Series E that the company says boosts its valuation to $1.1 billion. The round was led by GIC, the Singaporean government’s sovereign wealth fund, with participation from returning investors T...
英文 Google’s long-anticipated Wi-Fi for railway stations in India is slowly going operational starting tomorrow. As was announced late last September, Mumbai Central railway station will be the first location at which Google will provide high-sp...
英文 Foodpanda, the restaurant delivery service backed by Rocket Internet, has laid off about 300 of its employees in its Indian unit. This means Foodpanda India, which launched in 2012, has lost 15 percent of its workforce. The company has been ...
英文 Toby TriebelCrunch Network Contributor Toby Triebel is the CEO and co-founder of Spotcap. More posts by this contributor: Fintech’s Five Dark-Horse Cities How to join the network Accenture has warned local banking communities in Asia to wake...